[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4351 Introduced in House (IH)]







109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4351

    To require the Secretary of Defense, acting through the Defense 
  Contract Audit Agency, to review all defense contracts relating to 
  reconstruction or troop support in Iraq involving any contractors, 
    subcontractors, or Federal officers or employees that have been 
          indicted or convicted for contracting improprieties.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 16, 2005

   Mr. Lynch (for himself, Mr. Waxman, Mr. Lantos, Mrs. Maloney, Mr. 
    Kucinich, Mr. Higgins, Mr. Sanders, and Ms. Linda T. Sanchez of 
 California) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
    To require the Secretary of Defense, acting through the Defense 
  Contract Audit Agency, to review all defense contracts relating to 
  reconstruction or troop support in Iraq involving any contractors, 
    subcontractors, or Federal officers or employees that have been 
          indicted or convicted for contracting improprieties.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Iraq Contracting Fraud Review Act of 
2005''.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT FOR REVIEW OF IRAQ RECONSTRUCTION AND TROOP SUPPORT 
              CONTRACTS INVOLVING CONTRACTORS, SUBCONTRACTORS, OR 
              FEDERAL OFFICERS OR EMPLOYEES INDICTED OR CONVICTED FOR 
              CONTRACTING IMPROPRIETIES.

    (a) Requirement for Review.--The Secretary of Defense, acting 
through the Director of the Defense Contract Audit Agency, shall 
conduct a review of each covered contract to determine if the contract 
has been the subject of fraud or any other contracting impropriety.
    (b) Covered Contracts.--In this Act, the term ``covered contract'' 
means any contract (including a task or delivery order contract) 
entered into on or after March 1, 2003, by the Department of Defense, 
or any subcontract or task or delivery order under such a contract, if 
the contract, subcontract, or order--
            (1) relates to reconstruction or troop support in Iraq; and
            (2) involves any contractor, subcontractor, or Federal 
        officer or employee that has been indicted or convicted for 
        fraud or any other violation of Federal law with respect to 
        another contract of the Department of Defense relating to such 
        reconstruction or troop support in Iraq.
    (c) Notification to Congress.--The Secretary of Defense shall 
notify the committees listed in subsection (d) when the review required 
under this section begins.
    (d) Deadline and Report.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall complete the 
review required under this section and submit a report on the results 
of the review to--
            (1) the Committees on Armed Services and on Government 
        Reform of the House of Representatives; and
            (2) the Committees on Armed Services and on Homeland 
        Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate.
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